Former Pharmaceutical CEO to Plead Guilty in Opioid Scheme

The former head of Insys Therapeutics will plead guilty for his part in bribing doctors to prescribe a powerful opioid in an effort to increase the drug’s sales.

Federal prosecutors in Boston revealed that Michael Babich will plead guilty to conspiracy and mail fraud.

In addition to Babich, five other Insys employees are embroiled in the bribery efforts but have pleaded not guilty.

The drug Babich was pushing doctors to sell was Subsys, which contains fentanyl—an opioid 100 times more potent than morphine. With over 100 people a day dying due to opioid overdoses and millions more battling addiction these substances, Insys’s efforts effectively put lives at risk to satiate the greed of its executives.

NBC News: The former CEO of Insys, Michael Babich, has agreed to plead guilty in a major opiate drug case.

He will plead guilty to conspiracy and mail & wire fraud on January 9th.

The case involves bribes and kickbacks for doctors in return for prescribing patients Subsys.

Will he see hard time? Pot smokers have been forced to endure lengthy sentences in nastier prisons. Cannabis cannot kill. Babich was CEO. Should go to Shawshank for life. Prolly fine + probation, maybe a year or so in same place as Jeffrey Epstein?😠 How many died in this case?